Viral Hepatitis News

Rather than telling a patient they should get a vaccine, the CDC’s shared clinical decision-making recommendations advise patients to speak to providers about certain vaccines and decide on an individual basis if they should receive them. 

A two-dose series of a hepatitis B vaccine with a CpG adjuvant resulted in a more than 90% response rate among health care workers previously classified as nonresponders, researchers found.

When it comes to screening perinatally exposed infants for hepatitis C virus, the earlier the better, a study showed.

SAN ANTONIO — We caught up with Connie Steed, MSN, RN, CIC, FAPIC, at the annual meeting of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology to find out how she got “Hooked on ID.”

We checked in with CDC Director Mandy K. Cohen, MD, MPH, for an update on the agency’s efforts to modernize the nation’s disease surveillance and data systems and improve how the CDC communicates with the public and physicians.

Science has always been a passion of mine. I worked in research and microbiology for years, and while at home, I would read science journals, try to identify diseases from case studies and watch all the science shows.

WHO reported a “major” increase in STIs in 2022, specifically highlighting an increase in syphilis and an insufficient decline in new HIV and viral hepatitis infections.

The FDA has declined to approve Dynavax’s supplemental biologics license application for the expanded use of its four-dose hepatitis B vaccine regimen in adult patients on hemodialysis, according to a manufacturer’s press release.

We caught up with Gonzalo Bearman, MD, MPH, at the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America Spring Conference to ask how he got “Hooked on ID.”

The European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases is getting a new name.